Adam T. Ettinger has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Corporate practice group, based in the Century City office. Ettinger joins from Strategic Counsel Corp. where he was managing partner.

The 2015 edition of Chambers Global, which ranks law firms and attorneys considered leaders in their fields in 190 countries, recognized Kelley Drye’s outstanding reputation by ranking nine attorneys as leading lawyers and recommending Kelley Drye in three practice areas. The practice areas for which Kelley Drye was recommended include:

King & Spalding has recruited Joseph A. Eisert to its tort and environmental litigation practice as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Eisert joins a two-member team of environmental partners from his former firm of Kirkland & Ellis – Granta Nakayama and Ilana Saltzbart – who came over to King & Spalding in...

Epiq Systems, Inc. has announced that it has achieved kCura’s Orange-level Best in Service recognition for exceptional customer service for Relativity end users. This is the third time Epiq Systems has received Best in Service.
Epiq’s experienced, international team of professionals helps clients effectively manage complex matters and large...

Akin Gump is pleased to announce the launch of its new international trade-focused blog, AG Trade Law, found at www.AGTradeLaw.com. AG Trade Law will provide readers with timely updates on, and analysis of, legal, regulatory and policy developments affecting international trade. The firm is also launching a Twitter account devoted to sharing timely...

Akin Gump advised Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. in its definitive agreement and plan of merger with an affiliate of Centerbridge Partners, L.P. whereby Centerbridge will acquire Great Wolf, North America’s largest family of indoor waterpark resorts. Great Wolf is currently controlled by funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC. Terms of...

Leading global law firm Clifford Chance has advised BESI – Grupo Novo Banco and Credit Suisse, as arrangers and placement agents, on a $273.7 million financing for the Red Dorsal Nacional de Fibra Optica project, a countrywide fiber optic network spanning approximately 13,400 km in Peru, the first ever to be developed in the country.

Sills Cummis & Gross is pleased to welcome Joseph Manney who joined the firm as an associate in the Employment and Labor Practice Group. He represents corporate clients from a wide range of industries in employment-related matters before federal and state courts and agencies.

The U.S. Supreme Court today let stand a federal court judgment in favor of four Somali citizens, all Akin Gump pro bono clients, who won $21 million in compensatory and punitive damages for torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses committed by former Somali Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Mohamed Ali Samantar.

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP recently announced that Tim Gardner has joined the firm’s Hong Kong office as a partner. He has wide-ranging experience advising both local and international clients in complex private equity and M&A transactions.

International law firm Clifford Chance has advised a group of 26 underwriters, led by GF Securities (Hong Kong), Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BOCOM International Securities, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch on GF Securities' HK$28 billion (US$3.5 billion) listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The deal was priced at the top end of the price range...

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Timothy P. FitzSimons has joined the firm's Chicago Office as a partner in its M&A Practice. He was previously a partner with Latham & Watkins LLP in Chicago and New York.

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Mark Malven, Ann Arbor and Bloomfield Hills-based member, authored a treatise published by the Practising Law Institute (PLI) titled, Technology Transactions: A Practical Guide to Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Agreements.

Dykema has announced that James P. Feeney has received the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel’s (MDTC) Annual Excellence in Defense Award. He will be honored during an awards banquet hosted by the MDTC on Friday, May 15, at The Hotel in Midland, Mich.